Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Weaving 101

I finally had a chance to road-test my Ashford Knitter's Loom only a year after having received it as a Christmas gift. Jeesh. Anyway, weaving on my new toy brought forth memories of my floor loom days, only on a smaller scale and sans the eight harnesses, warping board, etc. Yep, this loom is easy peasy to use, warping directly onto the loom itself. Neato, let me tell you as I always found dressing a biggie floor loom to be a bit tedious.

Within an hour of beginning I had the Ashford dressed with some worsted weight wool and ready to weave! Check it out...





The weft is some of my hand-dyed looped wool, which I space-dyed last summer in subtle blues and greens. I bought the nekked yarn at Art Fibers in San Francisco on one of my northerly jaunts up the coast.

I didn't get fancy with the weave. It's just plain (over 1, under 1), but I think it looks quite nice nonetheless.



Throwing my shuttle to and fro I finished the 8 x 108" scarf in an afternoon. Not a bad way to whittle away the hours as far as I'm concerned!



I see some serious woven stash busters in my future...
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8 comments:

  1. Heather5:22 PM

    So exciting! Looking forward to seeing more woven stuff :)

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  2. Natalie7:06 PM

    Good Golly that is awesome! Way to rock some warp and weft.

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  3. Claire MW7:50 PM

    Cool! That is just gorgeous! Please proceed with stash busting, and then put the results up for sale!!

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  4. Anonymous6:09 AM

    Lovely! The texture is awesome.

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  5. Deneen6:30 AM

    I have to thank you because by reading this post, I checked out the loom you have (no, not buying one now, but impressed by it's portability)-however it had dealers in the area. One was located 9 miles from my house-I was perplexed, so I clicked the link. Damn it, I lived within a mile of that place 15 years ago and never knew it existed (wasn't into fiber then) and someone had mentioned the owners name and I ASSUMED she wouldn't be interested in classes, etc. I called her this AM, all I have to do is bring my wheel (sitting 3 years now) and free spinning lessons. She has a sheep farm, is into all the processing, felting, etc. I wanna kiss you-smooch, so see, this post (love the scarf) finally forced me to look up this person and woot, finally a kindred spirit local for me :)

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  6. Kelly4:23 AM

    I love hearing about your exploits. Though you are such an enabler. I'm not buying a loom yet, but you sure make it tempting

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  7. Vicky aka Stichr9:56 AM

    Sweet! I have been gazing at looms on eBay, and any links you have provided, because I love looking at them. Not sure I would want to own one...yet...so I will continue to enjoy your exploits!

    I make a scarf last night too, but the one I made was in lowly crochet and even lower red heart yarn....gag...cough...something my DIL picked up at goodwill....I see some serious yarn lessons in her future!

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  8. Unknown9:43 AM

    heya, do you have an email i can contact you on? i have a very important question i need to ask you about one of your patterns.

    thanks!

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